The EU's strategy for the Indo-Pacific

Abstract

Europeans are mostly pre-occupied with ending the pandemic and how to plan the recovery. When they do consider foreign policy issues, they tend to focus heavily on Europe’s volatile and contested neighbourhood, both to the South and East. This inward-looking and regional outlook is understandable. But it tends to miss wider changes in the global landscape. One mega trend in the world today is the power shift, from West to East and the rise in the strategic importance of the Indo Pacific.